something wierd happened..

**zerakh** · Jan 5, 2005, 00:57

Something really odd happened to my codes...
I had these codes working last week and when I went to enter something tonight, they caused a string of errors.
If you know how to fix these codes and errors I would appreciate it.

addnews.php

<form action="postnews.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
Title: <input type="text" name="title"><br>
Text

br>
<textarea name="text" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" value=" Post News ">
</form>

postnews.php

<?php

$name= $_POST['name'];
$email="$POST['email'];
$title = $_POST['title'];
$text = $_POST['text'];
$date = date("F j, Y", time());

if ( ! is_dir("news/") )
{
mkdir("news/");
}

if ( $handle = opendir("news/") )
{
while ( ( $file = readdir( $handle ) ) !== false )
{
if ( $file != "." && $file != ".." )
{
$news_array[] = $file;
}
}
closedir( $handle );
}

$num_news = ( count( $news_array ) + 1 );
touch("news/$num_news.txt");

$final = "$date\n$title\n$author\n$email\n$text";

$fp = fopen("news/$num_news.txt", "w");
flock( $fp, LOCK_EX );
fputs( $fp, $final );
flock( $fp, LOCK_UN );
fclose( $fp );

echo '<center><b>Your news article has been posted!</b></center>';

?>

../news.php

<?php

$display = 10;

if ( $handle = opendir("./News/news/") )
{
while ( ( $file = readdir( $handle ) ) !== false )
{
if ( $file != "." && $file != ".." )
{
$news_array[] = $file;
}
}
closedir( $handle );
}

array_multisort( $news_array, SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC );
array_splice( $news_array, $display );

$num_news = ( count( $news_array ) );

foreach ( $news_array as $val )
{
$news_file = file("./News/news/$val");

$date = $news_file[0];
$title = $news_file[1];
$name= $news_file[2];
$email= $news_file[3];
$text = $news_file[4];

echo "<font color='white'><b>".$date."</b><br>";
echo '<font size="+1"><i>'.$title.'</i></font><br>';
echo '<small>Written by: '.$name.'</small><br>';
echo $email
echo $text;
echo ' </font><body vlink="#BABABA"><a href="#beginning"><font size="-2" color="#BABABA">Top</font></a><br><br>';
}

?>

my errors

Warning: mkdir(news/): Permission denied on line 11

Warning: opendir(news/): failed to open dir: Invalid argument on line 14

Notice: Undefined variable: news_array on line 26

Warning: touch(): Unable to create file news/1.txt because No such file or directory on line 27

Warning: fopen(news/1.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory on line 31

Warning: flock(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource on line 32

Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource on line 33

Warning: flock(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource on line 34

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource on line 35

**zerakh** · Jan 5, 2005, 01:03

just a side note::

all of my pages that use similar codes (only a few inputs and locations differ) are having the same problems.

**Rebort** · Jan 5, 2005, 01:56

Did you check to make sure that the permissions on the directory and files are set so that the webserver can modify them?

**zerakh** · Jan 5, 2005, 09:08

Like I said, I had these pages working a week earlier and did nothing to them whastoever. All I know is that yesterday I went to post something and I was denied permissions.

I know that I have the ability to write to files and create them as I did last week.

**guido2004** · Jan 5, 2005, 09:24

It looks like you don't have the right permissions anymore. Maybe you should contact your host and ask them what happened.

**zerakh** · Jan 5, 2005, 10:09

somehow or other, the host/server that Im using "lost" my permissions....
I got them to reset my permissions. Thanks, I thought for a bit that there was something wrong with the codes I was using and it started to really "freak" me out as I've been using those for a bit.

Thanks again.

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